ARKA News Agency, Armenia
May 6 2006
Weather 100 percent one of causes of Armenian plane’s crash
Flight recorders of Armenian airbus can be extracted from water today
Air crash creates atmosphere of general will: Kocharian
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WEATHER 100 PERCENT ONE OF CAUSES OF ARMENIAN PLAN’S CRASH
Yerevan, May 6. /ARKA/. The weather is 100 percent one of the causes
of the crash of the Armenian plane, the ex-chief of the RA Chief
Aviation Department, Chairman of the National Association of Aviation
Dmitry Adabashyan told reporters.
The bad weather in the tragic night certainly plays its role in all
the possible versions of the crash, he said.
According to him, the Sochi airport, particularly the land services,
are not well fit for serving planes in bad weather, which played its
role in the crash. P.T. -0–
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FLIGHT RECORDERS OF ARMENIAN AIRBUS CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM WATER TODAY
YEREVAN, May 6. /ARKA/. Flight recorders of the Armenian airbus can
be extracted from the water today, ex-Chairman of the Armenian State
Administration of Civil Aviation, Chairman of the National
association of aviation, honored aviator of the USSR, Dmitry
Adbashyan told reporters.
`We know about the location of the flight recorders, and their
extraction is just a matter of technique,’ he said.
According to Adabashyan, many organizations, first of all, the
manufacturer of the airbus, French company `Airbus’ are interested in
the extraction of the flight recorders as soon as possible, because
it is interested in collecting evidences that the reason of the air
crash was not a technical malfunction.
Adabashyan ruled out a possibility of damage of the flight recorders
in the water. `They are made of a very solid resistant material and
capable of preserving its parameters up to 1100 degrees centigrade
above zero,’ the expert said.
According to him, flight recorders preserve energy and emit signals
during one month underwater.
The flight recorders from the Armenian airbus are currently located
on the bed of Black Sea at a depth of 680 meters. R.O. –0–
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AIR CRASH CREATES ATMOSPHERE OF GENERAL WILL: KOCHARIAN
YEREVAN, May 6. /ARKA/. Air crash of the Armenian airbus created an
atmosphere of general will, Armenian President Robert Kocharian
stated during his meeting with a delegation of Ramkavar-Azatakan
party (Liberal-Democratic Party).
`In the small Armenia, where everyone are related to each other, this
tragedy created the atmosphere of general will,’ he said.
In his turn, Leader of the RAP Mike Kharapian expressed condolences
of circles of the Armenian Diaspora to the Armenian President on the
occasion of the air crash.
He pointed out that the Diaspora equally grieves with the homeland
over the great loss.
Members of the delegation and Kocharian also discussed possibilities
of a more purposeful application of the RAP potentials in
all-Armenian initiatives, and issues, connected with the forum
Armenia-Diaspora, which is to be held in Yerevan in September 2006.
R.O. –0–
From: Baghdasarian